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October 2, 2011, Sunday

On this week's cover, William Kennedy reviews Cormac McCarthy's dark and plain-spoken new novel, ''The Road.'' Kennedy's own novels, of course, include ''Ironweed,'' ''Billy Phelan's Greatest Game'' and ''Roscoe,'' but from the beginning of his...

William Kennedy, the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist who has made Albany his home for most of his life, has agreed to give his personal papers to the State University of New York at Albany. The papers include his early manuscripts. Mr. Kennedy won...

October 28, 2003, Tuesday

Through a Lens Between 1987 and 1992, Afghan photographers and cameramen documented the end of Soviet domination and the gradual collapse of civil society that preceded the rise of the Taliban. Beginning today, photographs and video images from this...

January 13, 2002, Sunday

ROSCOE By William Kennedy 291 pages. Viking. $24.95. The elegiac air of William Kennedy's seventh Albany novel makes it a little more lyrical, a little more ardent, a little richer in eloquent blarney than the others.

IT is after midnight, and William Kennedy and some of his old pals have just closed the Boulevard, a dim, cavernous saloon sandwiched between the tire outlet stores on Central Avenue. His pals drift off, pleading fatigue; Mr. Kennedy still has a few...